Royals, Alex Gordon Agree To Extension

6:10pm: The deal is worth $37.5MM over four years with a player option for 2016 at $12.5MM, tweets Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star. Gordon will earn $6MM for 2012, $9MM for 2013, $10MM for 2014, and $12.5MM for 2015, Dutton tweets.

5:40pm: The Royals announced that they have reached a contract extension with leftfielder Alex Gordon. The contract includes four guaranteed years through the 2015 season with a player option for 2016. The Excel Sports Management client would have been eligible for free agency after the 2013 season.

Terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed but Gordon could potentially hold the richest deal in club history. To date, the largest deal in Kansas City's history has been $55MM, the amount given to both Gil Meche and Mike Sweeney.

Gordon, 28, hit .303/.376/.502 with 23 homers in 690 plate appearances in 2011. Last season marked Gordon's first as a full-time outfielder.

I’d like to see the financial terms first, but generally I’m happy to see one of the better players KC has on their team show that he is willing to stay through his prime years. This is a good step for the organization.

You were surprised that Jeffress got sent down? He was domoted twice last year, ended up in AA, and still can’t throw strikes in ST. I mean, he’s got talent, and I’m pulling for him, but I would have been shocked had he NOT been sent down. And no…..strangely…..Gordon’s extension does not improve the rotation. Also shocking.

So essentially $15 mil for his last two arbitration years, and $22.5 mil for two free agent years (and then the player option year). If he plays anything remotely close like he did last year for the life of this contract, it’s gonna be incredible value for the Royals.

He has been consistently below average defensively since he became a 3B except for last year when he was way above average. Very odd. And I am not disputing he is top 10. Maybe right at 10 though. But they do need to get better defensively at third.

always like it to see the perceived early-draft “bust” get it together. (also always like to see “my team” scoop early bust from stupid “other team” and then he does get it together!).
still, KC — stupid-other-team for too many years — hung in with this guy and there becomes a mutual appreciation from that. (don’t see them/him play much at all, but I hope it’s not a late burst-out early-flame-out scenario)at this point in time, does the Royals good as far as showing this big-potential next wave of theirs that they have that kind of loyalty/belief. and even if they were still mired in sucktitude, would/should/could pay off for them and him in a trade situation.